I would love to hear about your strategies of which you all used to effectively scale.

Otherwise, selling and using the proceeds to scale your portfolio locally could accelerate your long-term goals.

Most of the time I do the BRRRR strategy and I have scaled to 9 doors now, one of which I'm planning to flip.

This is a bit more involved, but as you scale, it is something you should consider.In response to your second question, I would say "yes" to allowing pets.

Possibly if the house is 3,000sf with the basement and the comps are 3,000sf above grade. 

Do you want to scale more and maybe sell this property and 1031 into something else that may cash flow more, or hold onto it because the cash flow is pretty steady it sounds like. 

Time allows for adjustments, scaling, and reinvestment in ways that short-term projects simply can’t achieve. 

Quote from @John Morgan: I’d do individual cash out refis on them to scale up.

Moving forward scaling with hard money loans may be the best bet and would avoid the headaches of living in a construction project. 

Although I find competition for what I call investment grade parks is quite keen.. so returns are more in the MF space.. when you venture out east from the west coast or look at low end parks returns are higher but management is quite intense.. as our dealing with some pretty scruffy tenant base.